$200k Grant Enables the Bucks IU Fab Lab Center’s Career Awareness Program

Secretary Rick Siger, Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED), has announced that the Shapiro Administration is invest­ing $200,000 in the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) Fab Lab’s Career Awareness Program. This new pro­gram will offer Bucks County mid­dle school stu­dents hands-on learn­ing expe­ri­ences in … Read more...

Bucks IU Offers State’s First PK-12 Special Education Teacher Apprenticeship — and it’s FREE!

The Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) is break­ing new ground by launch­ing Pennsylvania’s first appren­tice­ship pro­gram aimed at devel­op­ing Pre-Kindergarten (PK) to 12 Special Education teach­ers. This inno­v­a­tive pro­gram pro­vides cur­rent Bucks IU staff a unique path­way to earn their Pennsylvania Special Education teach­ing cer­ti­fi­ca­tion while … Read more...

Collaboration is Key to the Bucks IU Preschool Early Intervention Kindergarten Transition Process

Each year, approx­i­mate­ly 4,000 stu­dents receive Preschool Early Intervention (PEI) ser­vices from the Bucks County Intermediate Unit (Bucks IU) at loca­tions across the coun­ty. The Bucks IU’s PEI ser­vices are specif­i­cal­ly tai­lored to help preschool­ers max­i­mize their growth and devel­op­men­tal gains before start­ing kinder­garten. Of these … Read more...